Roger Rosenblatt (person)

Roger Rosenblatt is a writer and essayist best known for taking complex or esoteric subjects (everything from the meaning of art to racoon hunting) and explaining them with grand prose. The best example of this that is now part of Simpson's Contemporary Quotations is his reflections on the leaders of a meeting of American and Russiandiplomats for Time Magazine in 1986: "A flock of mad ducks flown north for the winter, descending noisily on this modest, good-mannered nation."